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| - Last Updated on September 16, 2023 by Neelam Singh
Quick Take
A video circulating on social media shows the interview of World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in which he informed that he waited until May 2021 to get his first Covid vaccine. We fact-checked and found the claim to be False.
The Claim
A Twitter user posted a 35-second-long video with the post ‘Tedros not jabbed? Well who’d have thought?’. This post has received 5,733 retweets, 1,014 quote tweets and 9,516 likes till we last checked.
Another Twitter user shared the same video with the post ‘So Tedros hasn’t had any Vx because he’s “protesting”’.
Similar social media posts are available online on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Fact Check
Is the WHO chief still not vaccinated with the Covid vaccine?
It does not seem so. On May 13, 2021, Tedros shared a tweet that confirmed he had been vaccinated against Covid-19 in a university hospital in Switzerland. The screenshot of the post is attached down-below:
We searched more to find the source of the video circulating on social media. As a result, we found that the original source is an HBO documentary titled ‘How to survive a pandemic’. A section of transcript is available down-below:
Interviewer: I want to ask you about your own vaccination. What was the date you got your first shot?
Dr. Tedros: May 12.
Interviewer: You’re the head of WHO. You could have said in December 2020, “I’m ready.” Why did you wait?
Dr. Tedros: I feel like I know where I belong: in a poor country called Ethiopia, in a poor continent, Africa. With the privileges I have here, maybe I had a chance to have it first. I don’t want to use that, because I want to be reminded every day that vaccination should start in Africa. I wanted to wait until Africa and other countries in other regions, low-income countries, started vaccination.
I have a background as a health worker and I’m in one of the risk groups. They were beginning to vaccinate health workers and risk groups [in Africa] around that time, so I thought that was my turn. I was checking my turn, actually, compared to what I would have in Africa, not in Geneva. I was protesting.”
Ethiopia started the national vaccine campaign in March 2021. Also, till August 01, 2022, only 21% of Africa’s population was vaccinated with the Covid vaccine.
THIP MEDIA TAKE: The World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has informed in the HBO documentary that he got his first Covid vaccine on May 12, 2021. Hence, the claim is false.
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